An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks that may be the oldest human-made ...

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

Bone tools have been created by hominins for millions of years, with the earliest evidence for the manufacture of ...

Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence ...

Whether for cooking, heating, as a light source or for making tools—it is assumed that fire was essential for the survival of ...

to represent events, people, places, or things — including other abstract ideas (love, freedom, etc.). Upper Paleolithic (UP): A prehistoric Period. An assortment of prehistoric technologies ...

Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were transegalitarian societies with significant inequalities, I, together with D’Ann Owens, began to ...

Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...